Default text is Aeris. If Aerith is up for debate, then other character names should be as well, right? That's why I brought Nanaki up, cause it's a vastly superior name to RedXIII (though it may be awkward hearing "Nanaki is Nanaki!" at Cosmo Canyon, lol. ).

I rename her Aerith everytime I play, just like I rename Red XIII "Nanaki".

An argument for "Aerith" could be that that's the name used for her in Crisis Core.

I don't particularly care which is going to be used, I guess it all depends on whatever the preference of the directors or voice actors is/are, although if theres gonna be some kind of vote on it, I'd vote for Aerith. I'm just glad that there's going to be voices!

I believe in my opinion that since the original game was in Japanese, with the intention of a resemblance of earth as the original idea, being a purist I believe that it should be Aerith. On a side note there is no 'th' sound in Japanese, so they replace it with '&#12473;' or 'su' and because of that there are many mistranslations. I hope don't have to tell you examples since you probably already know the mistakes mentioned in this thread http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=7616.msg92311#msg92311.

Well they may as well cast a vote, if theyy are going to incorporate it, based on popularity of Aeris, and Aerith respectively, it makes sense to do a good old vote, just setting a close date, and using the final numbers as a result, use Aeris if Aeris wins, and Aerith if Aerith gets the most votes. That way the majority is happy.

Yay, a poll! If Aeris wins, then they'll pronounce her name Aeris. If Aerith wins, they'll pronounce her name Aeris! Win-win situation.Unless they're going to actually say Aerith, which is incorrect and sounds silly on top of that.

1. Aerith doesn't sound silly2. Why are so many people against Aerith, when it was the name in the Japanese version, which if I'm not mistaken (could be) was the original version3. Polls are easy to do on here4. I guess it's a bitty late to do a real one, if the lines are to be started recording tonight

And just as an afterthought, how does ANYONE know if Aerith being pronounced Aerith is incorrect, as Auxili says, when the game is done WITHOUT voices, how do we not know that the original developers weren't thinking they want it pronounced Aerith instead of everyones beloved Aeris.

If there is proof, I retract this statement, and apologise for any inconvenience, and since I don't have a PSP, I dunno how it's pronounced in Crisis Core. It was just an afterthought to this whole thing.

But just because one person likes it one way, and another the other, doesn't make either way wrong just because they don't like it. Like how certain people pronounce that jackass Caith Sith as Cate Sith, and some people as Cat Sith.

Popular vote is going for Aeris, and that's what I'm likely going to be using. But we'll keep this up I suppose a little while longer.

"Red XIII" is rarely spoken in the game, and in the few cases it is, jack.o.lantern and myself will likely come up with a substitute such as "Red" instead of "Red Thirteen", which sounds like a robot. His default name will remain the same, so in his captions you will see "Red XIII", but again when his name is actually spoken, we'll see about using something less clumsy.

There's a problem with this, however, and something everyone needs to consider. When Red XIII's name is spoken, it uses the {RED XIII} tag. In order to change what is spoken, it would have to be hard coded so that no matter what you name him, it will still come up simply "Red" or whatever. I'm personally not going to use Nanaki. The revelation of his real name is an original piece in the game, and to simply default him as "Nanaki" takes that away. It's safe to say we're open to suggestions on this, but Nanaki won't cut it.

On the other hand, at the time you acquire Red XIII as a party member, keep in mind to a new player he's still just this weird experiment creature, so Red XIII doesn't seem quite so stupid. It seems dumb if you already know him as Nanaki, son of Seto etc. But originally he starts out seemingly a strange experiment. Just something to keep in mind before dismissing "Red Thirteen."

He's referring to Crisis Core using Aerith and saying it as it looks. Personally Crisis Core doesn't mean strawberries to me, but - one man's opinion.

I'd like to be able to change his default name as you said. I can try messing with opcodes to see if there's a way to change it around once you get to Cosmo Canyon, but there might be more to it than just tinkering in Meteor. On that note, does anybody know where default names are stored? Is it in the menu system?

The default name is Aeris in the NA version, and Crisis Core's voice actors doesn't mean much to me, but I don't mind if people call her Aerith and pronounce it this way too. However, her name in game is Aeris. It could just be as simple as that. Her identity in the western world is "aeris", and there is nothing wrong with that. People think there is a huge problem with that, and they fight for Aerith, but I don't see the need.Squeenix translated her name, and, as far as I'm concerned, her name to the western world SHOULD be Aeris, not the japanese world's 'Aerith'.

It would make more sense to settle on Aeris rather than try to respect the Japanese translation of the name and call her Aerith. The name was translated as Aeris, just as Sephiroth and such were. We aren't calling Sephiroth anything different.

Anyways, I like the idea of calling RedXIII "Red" up until Cosmo Canyon. Then everyone can call him Nananki (except for Cid as I remember him saying "Red" in AC, methinks. Also, him using a nickname would be more true to his character).

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but that's 12 to 5 for Aeris. I'm sending in Aeris' first lines now, so poll closed (there's no 'make a poll' option for posts on this board, I'm afraid...).

As for Red XIII, I don't mind saying the whole thing, but Red is a good nickname too. It might be useful to change depending on what the mood of the line is and how well you know the character at this point. "Hey, Red!" as opposed to "Hey, Red XIII!" for example.

The Cait in Cait Sith rhymes with the English name Kate. His Japanese name is ã‚±ãƒƒãƒˆãƒ»ã‚·ãƒ¼ (kaytto shii). If it was Cat Sith, it would be ã‚­ãƒ£ãƒƒãƒˆãƒ»ã‚·ãƒ¼ (kyatto shii).